This class explores the representation of women and race in Western culture, GLBTQ arts, African American art and artists, contemporary American Indian arts, and The Culture Wars.

17th-century painters, sculptors — including Caravaggio, Bernini, A. Gentileschi, Velázquez — broke with Renaissance practices. Their innovations became the foundation of modern art history.

Learn the concepts, practices, and research that comprise the practice of design. Design creates positive change, is exploratory, and experimental. Designers can change the world we live in.

The Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is widely seen as the greatest artist of the 20th century. Learn about the prolific career of what is really one of the great innovators of modern art.

Learn the theory and practice of curating contemporary art. Focus on lectures, conversations with curators, curatorial methodology, history of curating, skills of realizing an exhibition.

Learn printmaking processes at home. How to use stencils, relief printing, rubbings, and direct transfer methods along with hand-coloring and collage to create your own individual artworks.

Focus on creating handmade artist books in your own home or studio. Learn accordion fold, stab binding, and signature stitching. Investigate relationship of text, image, and structure.